Chuck Schwab Speaks to Us
Five things I love about these Charles Schwab videos by Mekanism:
1. They are SPEAKING TO MY PEOPLE, and they succeed (like, actually really truly).
2. That is the actual Charles Schwab, founder and chairman of Charles Schwab. WHAT A COOL DUDE.
3. The name of the campaign is “Oh Chuck! I Blew My Cash!” (genius)
4. There is a also contest that goes with it and you can win $10,000 in a Charles Schwab account if you make a video about how you blew your cash! (My video would just be a long shot of an empty room.)
5. The theme music gets an A+
Do any of them SPEAK to you? (I see myself in all of them but the burger one the mostttttttt. And I don’t even eat burgers.)
I, also, am unclear on what a per diem is (but: I’ll take one?)
“That’s a lot of money to look like you do.”
UPDATED TO ADD:
Six videos in a post is too many videos in a post, I have discovered. Took the rest of them out but you can watch them here if you want. Also this isn’t an ad. I wish it was an ad! But it is not an ad. I just actually really like these videos. Advertising: IT WORKED ON ME.
This is a fantastic way to endear me to bankers. Good work, Chuck!
A per diem is like, a daily allowance that the person you’re working for gives you for food and stuff. I’ll let Murray explain it (at 2:05):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ZyVAhe_2A
“Max, ah, one more thing. Ah … who am I dropping this off to? Who gets their hands on this?”
“That’s your per diem.”
“Yeah, that’s my per diem. And who do I give it to? Who do I drop it off to?”
I haven’t watched the videos, but where I work, per diem is money you get per day (hence “per diem”) to cover your expenses when you travel somewhere for work. The federal government sets how much per diem is, based on cost of living in your destination, or, at least, it sets what per diem is for government employees, and depending on your profit margin/how quasi-government your job is, how much you get at your job varies. The tricky bit is, sometimes per diem is the maximum you’re allowed to ask for in reimbursements, and sometimes it is how much money you get per day, regardless of what you actually spent. Per diems tend to be higher than necessary, so if you’re somewhere known to be expensive and can do it on the cheap, (travelling to Paris for work and staying with a friend rather than a hotel) you can wind up with some extra money.
So, yes, per diems for everyone!
@cherrispryte When I was in the Peace Corps, our (Federal) per diems for the two and a half days we were in DC were bigger than our living allowance for the first three months we were in country.
@stuffisthings I know lots of ridiculous per diem stories. As this is the internet, I shall not tell any of them, but your comment does not surprise me in the least.
i’ve watched the burger one probably five times and it hasn’t stopped making me laugh.
Surprisingly funny and dead on.